All 1994 Book Awards

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Arthur C. Clarke – Novel

Vurt

Jeff Noon

Bram Stoker – Novel

The Throat

Peter Straub

British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Long Lost

Ramsey Campbell

British SF Association – Novel

Aztec Century

Christopher Evans

Costa Book Award – Novel

Felicia’s Journey

William Trevor

Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama

The Ends of the Earth

Morris Panych

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

A Discovery of Strangers

Rudy Wiebe

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication

John A. Livingston

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Cantos from a Small Room

Robert Hilles

Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English)

The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers

Donald Winkler

Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

Josepha: A Prairie Boy’s Story

Murray Kimber

Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text

Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me

Julie Johnston

Hugo Awards – Novel

Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Under My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949

Doris May Lessing

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst

John W. Campbell – Novel

no award

Locus – Fantasy Novel

The Innkeeper’s Song

Peter S. Beagle

Locus – SF Novel

Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography

Shot in the Heart

Mikal Gilmore

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest

Diplomacy

Henry A. Kissinger

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction

Remembering Babylon

David Malouf

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction

The Year of the Frog: A Novel

Martin M. Simecka, Peter Petro

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

George Chauncey

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry

The Angel of History

Carolyn Forché

Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

Jonathan Weiner

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Shot in the Heart

Mikal Gilmore

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

The Culture of Bruising

Gerald Early

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

The Rape of Europa

Lynn Nicholas

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Rider

Mark Rudman

Nebula – Novel

Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

Philip K. Dick – Novel

Elvissey

Jack Womack

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919

David Levering Lewis

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Shipping News

E. Annie Proulx

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

David Remnick

Pulitzer Prize – History

No award given

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

Yusef Komunyakaa

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel

Fox Magic

Kij Johnson

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Glimpses

Lewis Shiner

AAFCAYAL – Children/Young Adult

The Mermaid’s Twin Sister

Lynn Joseph

Agatha – First Novel

Do Unto Others

Jeff Abbott

Agatha – Nonfiction

By a Woman’s Hand

Jean Swanson & Dean James

Agatha – Novel

She Walks These Hills

Sharyn McCrumb

Anthony – First Novel

Track of the Cat

Nevada Barr

Anthony – Novel

Wolf in the Shadows

Marcia Muller

Beehive – Fiction

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (Magic Shop Books, book 2)

Bruce Coville, illustrated by Gary A. Lippincott

Beehive – Informational

Steven Biesty’s Incredible Cross Sections

Richard Platt; illustrated by Stephen Platt

Black Caucus – Fiction

Lesson Before Dying

Ernest J. Gaines

Black Caucus – First Novel

Losing Absalom

Alexs D. Pate

Black-Eyed – Grades 4-6

Fourth Grade Rats

Jerry Spinelli

Black-Eyed – Grades 6-9

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Black-Eyed – Picture Book

Go Away, Big Green Monster!

Ed Emberley

Bluebonnet – Children’s

Shiloh

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Scooter

Vera B. Williams

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery

Russell Freedman

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Grandfather’s Journey

Allen Say

Bram Stoker – Fiction Collection

Alone with the Horrors

Ramsey Campbell

Bram Stoker – First Novel

The Thread That Binds the Bones

Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Bram Stoker – Nonfiction

Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography

Robert Bloch

Caldecott – Picture Book

Grandfather’s Journey

Allen Say

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Whispers in the Graveyard

Theresa Breslin

Colorado Blue Spruce – Young Adult

It

Stephen King

Coretta Scott King – Author

Toning the Sweep

Angela Johnson

Coretta Scott King – Illustrator

Soul Looks Back in Wonder

Tom Feelings

Costa – Book of the Year

Felicia’s Journey

William Trevor

Costa – Children’s

Gold Dust

Geraldine McCaughrean

Costa – First Novel

The Longest Memory

Fred D’Aguiar

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

A Grave Talent

Laurie R. King

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

The Twin in the Tavern

Barbara Brooks Wallace

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Sculptress

Minette Walters

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Dead Folks’ Blues

Steven Womack

Grand Canyon – Intermediate

Shiloh

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Grand Canyon – Picture Book

The Three Little Javelinas

Susan Lowell

Great Stone Face – Grades 4-6

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher

Bruce Coville

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Way Home

Gregory Rogers

Hemingway – PEN

The Magic of Blood

Dagoberto Gilb

L.A. Times – Fiction

Remembering Babylon

David Malouf

L.A. Times – First Fiction

The Year of the Frog

Martin M. Šimecka

Macavity – First Mystery

Death Comes As Epiphany

Sharan Newman

Macavity – Mystery Novel

The Sculptress

Minette Walters

Macavity – Nonfiction

The Fine Art of Murder edited

Ed Gorman

Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Giver

Lois Lowry

PEN/Faulkner – Fiction

Operation Shylock: a Confession

Philip Roth

Scott O Dell – Historical Fiction

Bull Run

Paul Fleischman

Shamus – First P.I. Novel

A Drink Before the War

Dennis Lehane

Shamus – P.I. Novel

The Devil Knows You’re Dead

Lawrence Block